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pay him $40,000 in all. He was also told that a condition of such payments

was that he was not to carry out raids on the stalls and, in the event that

he did have to carry out raids, he had to give prior notice of such raid so

that a "false stall" could be arranged. He agreed and expressed satisfaction

with the amount and went on to say that some money was being paid by Uniformed

Branch, hence he did not require the monthly payments to be made to him direct

and wanted his money transferred elsewhere. The following day LAU Cheong-wah

went back to Cunningham's office and Cunningham wrote an aidress on a piece of

paper and asked the money be remitted each month to that address. LAU could

not remember the details of the address except that it was to a C.J.M. Cunningham

and the address somewhere in Manchester or Manchester Field.

It

LAU told the court that a new station Sgt. a man called CHIU Tak,

was transferred into the Division, and he took CHIU Tak to see Cunningham.

was then agreed that CHIU Tak would handle all future payments of money to

Cunningham, and so the address was given by LAU to CHIU Tak. LAU said he

continued to pay $20,000 per month which was his share of the $40,000, (this money came from Shaukiwan which was his "area") to CHIỤ Tak, who added his

$29,000 and continued to make the full payment of $40,000, CHIU Tak making up

the balance from his receipts.

LAU said that CHIU Tak was eventually transferred and his post was

taken over by station Sgt. MA Hak-shing but the arrangement continued and it

was MA who then passed the money to Cunningham. This situation continued until

LAU was transferred.

LAU also gave evidence that subsequently, when Cunningham was

transferred from Bayview Division to the post of Superintendent in charge of Operations, Hong Kong Island, he paid $2,000 per month to Cunningham as a

"connection fee."

LAU further gave evidence that on the day that Cunningham was going

on leave, LAU gave him £300 sterling as holiday gift.

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In relation to Thompson, LAU gave evidence that when Thompson came

to the Station sometime in 1971, AU went to see him. He told Thompson that he was

the 'representative' from Shaukiwan and asked if Thompson was interested in

getting some 'extra money". Thompson asked how much' and LAU then explained

the 'circumstances' of Shaukiwan, saying that 'there were not many places where money could be made', and therefore C.I.D. oould only offer him $10,000